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    SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular
    On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
    > > On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > > > There isn't any big advantage and doesn't seem to be much usage of
    > > > modular schedulers.
    > > >
    > > > OTOH, the overhead made the kernel image of an x86 defconfig (that
    > > > doesn't use modular schedulers) bigger by nearly 2 kB.
    > >
    > > Big nack, I use it all the time for testing.
    >
    > OK.
    >
    > > Just because you don't
    > > happen to use it is not a reason to remove it.
    >
    > s/you/you and all distributions you checked/

    Well they should make them modules (two of them, that is). It's been a
    long time since I considered a distro .config a benchmark/guideline of
    any sort.

    --
    Jens Axboe

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